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Twitter bots get enterprising, courtesy of Sprout Social

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

These days, the idea of bots on Twitter might be associated more with accounts that auto-Tweet, auto-like, and auto-retweet messages, or are corralled into large armies that follow people and do other things en-masse. But as the idea [...]

Watchmaker Robert Forsey talks about the smartwatch problem

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Watchmaker Robert Forsey, co-founder of Gruebel Forsey, isn’t worried. This plain-spoken creator of some of the most complex and beautiful watches in the world sees the Swiss Watch industry to be in turmoil but not in peril. “They [...]

Tumblr rolls out new content filtering tools with launch of ‘Safe Mode’

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Tumblr this morning is rolling out a significant update to its content filtering system with the launch of a new “Safe Mode” for browsing content on its site. While the company already offered the ability to filter explicit [...]

HTT signs on South Korea to build a full-scale Hyperloop system

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has found a few new licensee clients for its Hyperloop technology, a group of South Korean entities including the government and two of its educational institutions, who will use HTT’s research and tech to construct [...]

Amazon Prime Wardrobe lets you try on and return clothes free

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon’s latest perk for Prime members could make us more stylish by letting us buy everything that catches our eye and return what doesn’t fit. Today Amazon revealed Amazon Prime Wardrobe, which is currently in beta, but you [...]

Arduino developers get extra support as Codeanywhere acquires Codebender

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Codeanywhere, a cross platform cloud IDE for creating web apps and sites has acquired Codebender, another cloud IDE that enables users to develop for Arduino devices. This is Codeanywhere’s first acquisition and financial terms of the transaction were [...]

Netflix debuts choose-your-own-adventure stories for kids

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Netflix today announced the debut of “interactive” stories on its service – a sort of choose-your-own-adventure style of storytelling, where viewers get to decide what happens next. The new stories, whose development was rumored earlier this year, will [...]

Agentology, the referral network for real estate agents, closes on $4.5 million

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Real estate is one of those industries that has been rather slow on the uptake of technology, which makes a lot of sense. Buying and selling a home is one of the biggest, most personal decisions in a [...]

Simply Wall St. raises $1.8 million from its own customers to build out investment advisory services

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Financial services apps are all the rage these days and one of the latest to capitalize on the trend is Simply Wall St. which closed a $1.8 million round (2.4 million Australian dollars) in its latest round of [...]